Yim Yam

January 2016: Yim Yam closed their Collingwood branch inward September 2015. They're withal trading inward Yarraville 

January 25, 2012

One my colleagues came into run lately raving well-nigh a novel Thai house that had popped upwards on Smith Street called Yim Yam. Some quick enquiry revealed that this is a novel outlet of a small-scale chain of Thai/Laotian restaurants amongst a highly regarded shop inward Yarraville. Once nosotros scanned their online carte du jour together with noted all the niggling 'V's, Yim Yam went straight off on our listing of places to try.

We stopped inward at well-nigh 8:30 on a Midweek nighttime to uncovering it heaving amongst people together with unreserved tables exclusively available out inward the courtyard. The carte du jour is loaded upwards amongst vegetarian options together with it was all nosotros could create to stick to only three dishes. We started amongst the vegetarian Thai kokosnoot pancakes filled amongst tofu, salad together with ii sweetness sauces ($10.90 for two). While it was a niggling to heavy on the condiments, the pancakes were neat together with had us looking frontwards to what Yim Yam powerfulness select next.

Matt Preston - the carte du jour boasts that the toasted rice together with kokosnoot salad ($14.90) is his favourite dish.

It's slow to come across why - the combination of toasted rice chunks, shredded coconut, herbs, peanuts together with lettuce gives you lot the a wonderful make of textures together with flavours. The crispy rice inward item is wonderful - non every bit dry out every bit I'd feared it would be, but withal packing an impressive crunchiness. There's a flake of rut inward this dish, courtesy of a sprinkling of dried chillies, every bit good every bit syrupy sweetness together with a lime tang.

Our minute head was 1 of their $9 Midweek specials - a serve of the snakebean, basil together with tao-hu stir-fry amongst rice.

The tao-hu is a variety of chewy tofu, together with combined good amongst the fresh beans together with bamboo shoots. The stiry-fry sauce packed a enterprise punch, amongst to a greater extent than or less Thai basil flavours peeking out from behind the chilli kick.

Yim Yam is a welcome improver to the Gertrude terminate of Smith Street - betwixt it together with the nearby Easy Tiger, this surface area has the inexpensive together with fancy ends of the marketplace sewn up. Yim Yam looks quite small-scale from the front, but seems to direct maintain well-nigh 4 dissimilar seating areas (front room, courtyard, upstairs, downstairs). The staff direct maintain to run pretty hard, but things moved along fairly good despite the packed house. The carte du jour states that they're happy to arrange vegan together with other dietary considerations (and it's possible that everything nosotros ate was vegan). Given that they're opened upwards for weekday lunches every bit good every bit dinners, I'll almost for sure travel back.

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Nobody seems to direct maintain reviewed the Collingwood outpost of Yim Yam yet, but at that topographic point are plenty of positive write-ups of the Yarraville branch: Tune into Radio Carly, Footscray Food Blog, Temasek together with half-eaten.

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Yim Yam
76 Smith Street, Collingwood (also inward Yarraville together with Moonee Ponds)
9419 3985
veg dishes: $6.90 - $14.90
http://yimyam.com.au/

Accessibility: The front end surface area has a apartment entrance but is fairly crowded. Access to the courtyard together with other rooms (plus the toilets) quest you lot to negotiate at to the lowest degree a few steps. The toilets are spacious plenty but non necessarily designed amongst accessibility issues inward mind. Ordering takes house at the table, thence payment is at a relatively high together with crowded counter out the front.